@cjkoger: I bought Civ 4 the weekend before last. Substitute Coke for Red Bull and that's exactly what I could have typed a week ago (instead I opted to get another turn or two in. Just till I could see if my attack worked. Maybe a couple more but...)

Oldhat: I'm disappointed that it's not going to be an 8bit brawler instead of a Mega Man game. I would have played the crap out of a Street Fighter game with 8bit graphics. (Though not actual 8bit, since you couldn't do the massive effects in 8bit)

@ben Yeah, at 2ish I was like, "Let's just see if this attack works." Suddenly, it was 3:30am. I made it through work today as well. Woot. I didn't realize how much I missed games in this realm. Too many platformers, fps, loooooong rpgs for the last couple years.

They weren't particularly bad, you understand... but once you'd played for three minutes, you pretty much got the idea, and changed cartridges. Unless those were the only NES game your folks allowed in their home, I guess.

There were a couple of Christian FPS games for the PC, but I never played 'em.

Super Hexagon is so hard! But it does the same thing Geometry Wars does, where it takes so little time to restart it essentially all feels like one long game and you end up never rage quitting as a result. I've yet to get past 30 seconds T__T

And THQ (my former employer) has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Not massively shocking, but a little bit surprising, since the stock seemed to be trending upward in the wake of the Humble Bundle. And despite the news story saying there were 'no layoffs planned' I texted a friend who's still there and she replied that she was 'busy packing.' So layoffs apparently are happening.

The Steam Holiday Sale is a go! I'm safe today, but tomorrow? A few hours from now when flash sales start to update? Who knows. It's dangerous territory and my wallet is going to end up far lighter than it was when it started.